Reserve-gasoline valve



Feb. 6,19% 4,444,582.

C. BURRIS.

RESERVE GAsoLlNE VALVE.

ExLED JUNE z, 1921.

Patented heb. @i 1923.

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RESEBVE-GASOLNl-l VetLVE.

Application flied June '7, 1921. Serial No. 1 -75,692.

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Be it known that l, @HARLEY Binuus, a citizen of the United States, residing at Finley, in the county of Benton, State ot Washington, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Reserve-Gasoline Valves; and l do hereby declare the 'following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in valves and particularly to valves used in connection with automobile gasoline tanks. l

@ne object ot the present invention is to provide a valve which is simple in construction, easy to operate, and which will readily retain a reserve supply ot gasoline in a tank, when in one position, and which will permit the escape and use of the reserve supply when turned in another position. n l

Another object is to provide a device oi this character which can be easily and quickly applied to the ordinary gasoline tank on an automobile now in use, with very slight modiiications to the tank.

`ther objects and advantages will be apparent from the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing.

1n the drawing:

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view through a portion oia gasoline tank, showing the invention in elevation therein.

Figure 2 is an enlarged vertical sectional view through the valve showing the same in position to retain the reserve supply.

Figure 3 is a similar view but showing the valve in position to permit the escape ot the reserve supply.

Referring particularly to the accompanying drawing, v10 represents a portionof a gasoline tank t0 the bottoni of which is secured the trap 11, a turn-plug valve 12 being carried in the upper portion ot the trap. Connected to the upper end of the trap, and extending vertically within the tank, is a metal tube 13, the same having pair of diainetrically opposite openings adjacent its upper end, and a similar pair ot openings adjacent its lower end, these latteropenings being practically at the level, or in the plane of the bottom of the tank, at 1e.

Disposed within the tube 13 is a second tube 15, which extends a short distance above the upper end or the tube 13, and has secured thereto a vertical rod 1G, which rod extends upwardly through the top of the tank and is provided with a laterally turned handle 17. in the upper portion ot the tube 15, and in the saine horizontal plane as the openings 14, are formed the diainetrically opposite openings 18,'said openings being arranged to register with the said openings 14, when the tube 15 is rotated to a certain degree. ln the lower portion of the tube 15, and in vertical alignment with the openings 18, are the diametrieally opposite openings 19. lt will be noted that the openings 1li are in diiiferent vertical lines, so that when the openings 18 register with the openings lei, the openings 19 are out of register with the openings 14, a blank portion of the tube 15 covering the latter openings 111. The gasoline can pass from the tank, through the openings 18 and 14, down through the tubes 13 and 15, and into the trap. This causes a certain depth ot gasoline to remain in the tank, equal to the height of the openings 14, troni the bottom ot the tank. When this reserve supply is needed, the handle 17 is grasped and the tube 15 turned to register the openings 19 with the Openings 14', when the gasoline will flow from the tank through the tubes 13 and 15, to the trap.

ihe upper end oi the tube 13 is cut away to produce the stop shoulders 20, against which the similar shoulders 21, formed on the lower end of the collar 22, of the upper end of the tube 15, are arranged to engage. By this construction the openings of the tube 15 will be brought into perfect register with the openings of the tube 13, thus preventing both the upper and lower openings 111 and 14 being partially opened and the desired reserve supply @t gasoline to escape.

What claimed is:

A valve 'for a gasoline tank comprising a pair of telescoped and relaticely rotatable tubes, the inner tube having a. pair oit' diametrically opposite openings in its upper end and a pair of diametrically opposite openings in its lower end, the upper and lower openings being in vertical alignment, the outer tube having diainetricallv opposite openings in its upper end and a pair of diainetrically opposite openings in its lower end arranged at ninety degrees from the upper openings of the outer tube, the openings of between which the lug is arranged for lmitthe inner tube being adapted for regstery ing` the rotary movement of the inner tube. 10 With those of the outer tube, the upper end In testimony whereof, I aiiix my signaof the outer tube having an upwardly exture, in the presence of two Witnesses. tending lug, and a collar on the upper end @HARLEY A. BURRIS.

of .the inner tube riding on the upper end Witnesses: of the outer tube and having a cutaway por- CARL MEYERS, tion resulting in a pair of stop shoulders E. M. ANGELI.. 

